Life Path

 

Many people spend time looking for their life path. But let’s take a moment and consider what an actual path is. 

A path is something created on the ground by several passages across a particular place.

• Does this metaphor actually fit for a human life?
• Who has gone before you in living your life?
• If we look at the experience of living a life, we are actually bushwhacking, making our own path.

By being clear on our values, we can determine if the direction we’re going in our daily activities really does matter to us.

When we are clear about what matters, know the direction we want our life to go in, we still have to consider the terrain. For example:

A woman values quiet and control. She becomes pregnant and gives birth to triplets.  Her terrain has completely changed. She still values these things, but she may find that it isn’t as easy to move in the direction of her values. She may find in the course of parenting that other values are more important, or she may realize that her ability to experience these values might be limited for a while.